just woke up, still blurry here so excuse easy question before i melt something -
battery C rating = ceiling on instantaneously available power
battery S rating = number of battery cells (in series)
battery mAh rating = "size of gas tank"
now forgive me because i'm psychologically scarred about electronics. in other venues, the amps a device can handle is critical - it needs a certain number of amps to run the device, too many amps will fry it.
i've read and reread forrest mimms and other books i own (all written 1960s to 1980s, wish i had some earlier books!) but seriously someone fried my ability to parse electronics pretty much. i still occasionally make things, but i don't think about it well.
what i'm concerned about is if i then go and throw say a 500mAh battery on a device that ships with a 360mAh battery... i'm interested in longer flight time only, not power or speed.
it there a mAh ceiling i should stay below when selecting spare batteries for a 2s 360mAh? (i've seen the device fly on 3s)
but i'm okay with being wrong and having no idea, it concurs with thirty years of trying to build things. "circuit bending" i can do... made an untuned audio synth out of three 555s, added a dozen potentiometers to an old analog drum machine, but as soon as i start to think about ideal forms and pure design, its like a couple of sledgehammers across the face. electronics and chemistry. give me math, i'm lovely. but it's like i'm not allowed to play with real things.